Compared to the transparency characteristic of a non-literary work, literary texts are aesthetic craftings where meaning often gets expressed in a concealed way. In narrative, two of the most distinguished features are the linear organization of...

This dissertation is a study of Panamanian nationalism from 1903--31. The dissertation notes that Panamanians had long been pressing for their own country before the U.S. intervention in 1903. In reaction to Colombian neglect, the white mercantile...

The research project highlighted in this thesis utilizes a systematic synthetic protocol for synthesis of multimetallic dithiolene complexes. Monometallic dithiolene complexes are widely studied and easy to synthesize, whereas, multimetallic...

Soft tissue reconstruction in the nervous system is sensitive to the mechanical and chemical cues of the growth microenvironment. Many technologies have been designed to study these stimuli and their effect on the regional extracellular environment...

Fungi of the family Cantharellaceae (order Aphyllophorales) in the Gulf Coast area were studied using morphological and molecular methods. The flora was surveyed between 1991 and 1994, and, using traditional systematic techniques, was characterized...

This dissertation presents a random numerical method which combines a random vortex method and a random choice method. With the assumption of incompressibility, the equations governing the fluid motion can be uncoupled from the equations governing...

This dissertation is a presentation and defense of the idea that public philosophy is a valuable activity, and that public philosophy should be generally supported because it provides benefits to the people who engage in it, and it raises esteem...

The goal of this qualitative study was to use archival data from a participatory action research (PAR) project to construct a local, culturally informed model of African American children and adolescents' stressors and reactions to stress...

Stored red blood cell (sRBC) morphology is currently scored manually by technicians in a slow labor intensive process prone to error. This project proposes a way to simplify, automate, and expedite the morphology scoring process by using a novel...